VIA SATA IDE Hot-Plug User Guide
Updated:
. Application License
Agreement
. Distribution
Package Contents
The
VIA SATA IDE Hot-Plug driver extends the Hot-plug feature of SATA IDE
controller that applies Microsoft IDE Driver. User could enjoy the hot-plug
feature of SATA IDE controller as USB devices without installing specific
IDE/RAID driver.
Any SATA device connects to VIA SATA IDE Controllers could be
automatic identified and added into the computer without reboot system. The
supported MS Operation Systems are described in System Requirement section.
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This package should be installed on the system with VIA
VT8237, VT8251 and VT
(Note: The SATA RAID controllers, likes
as VT6420/VT
This software package only supports Microsoft Windows© Platforms. The setup program will detect the current platform and install proper driver on your system. The supported platforms are list below:
Windows 98/98SE RTM and above
Windows ME RTM and above
Windows 2000 RTM and above
Windows XP RTM and above
Windows Server 2003 RTM and above
Windows XP RTM and above
Windows Server 2003 RTM and above
The setup program will display the released data
and version for this package at dialog title.
There is specific version syntax for package
identification:
The X is the major version of this package; and YZ
represents the minor version.
The alphabetic is always appended after version field
to represent the qualification by Windows Hardware Qualification Lab. The A
means the first package for the same driver binary, B means the second released
package for the same driver binary, and so on.
In this section, we show the detail file list of ZIP-compressed package in which include setup and driver files.
0X0409.INI, INSTMSIA.EXE,
INSTMSIW.EXE, ISSCRIPT.MSI,
License.rtf, PCIENUM.SYS,
README.TXT, SETUP.EXE,
Setup.ini, SETUP.ISS,
SETUP.MLF, SETUP.SCF,
viasetup.dll, VIASetup.msi Readme.html
English.slf, asia.slf, europe1.slf, europe2.slf
europe3.slf, 165x300.bmp, 500x60.bmp
VIAStor
component.cif, InsStX64.exe, MRaid.dll,
Stor9x.dll, VIAStor.dll, VSDINST.dll.
Driver Location: VIAStor\Driver\IDE\NT5
Windows 2000, XP & Server 2003
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\vIDEX32.SYS |
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\xfilt.SYS |
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\VSATAIDE.INF |
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\vIDEX64.SYS |
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\XFILTX64.SYS |
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\videx32.CAT |
Optional Digital Signature file |
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\videx64.CAT |
Optional Digital Signature file |
Driver Location: VIAStor\Driver\IDE\NT4
Windows NT4 SP4
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\vIADSK.SYS |
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\VIAIDE.INF |
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Driver Location: VIAStor\Driver\IDE\win9x
Windows 98/98se
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\ VATAPI.VXD |
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\ VIAVSD |
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\viADSK.CAT |
Optional Digital Signature file |
Driver Location: VIAStor\Driver\IDE\winME
Windows ME
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\ VATAPI.VXD |
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\ VIAVSD |
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\viADSK.CAT |
Optional Digital Signature file |
There are two operation modes, Windows UI and command line, to execute installation and remove. The most popular is the Windows UI mode that provides convenient user interface and systematic operation. The command line mode, also called as silent mode, need user append more parameters behind SETUP.EXE as answer to make the setup program silence without pop any dialogs.
There are possible two types setup
package you may have. One is compressed as a zip file includes visible setup
and driver files. Another one is made as a self-extracted-execution file. In
the following, we will show you the steps to complete driver installation and
remove with both package types.
If the downloaded file is ZIP-compressed format, please extract it to proper location in your hard disk first. Then launch the SETUP.EXE by double-clicking. Otherwise, you could double-click the self-extracted-execution file and wait for few seconds for the self-extraction. The extracted file will be deleted automatically after setup has been terminated.
If it is the first time to execute the setup package, you will only have the choice of installation.
After the first time execution, you could have choice to make Update and Remove. You will see two options, Update and Remove in the first shown dialog. If you are going to update the driver, please active the Update radio button and press next button to enter next steps. Else, if you are going to remove the installed driver in your system, please active the Remove radio button and press next button to enter next steps.
There is another path to remove the installed driver is to go through “Add Remove Programs” service of control panel. An uninstall item is added after install , VIA Platform Device Manager, to handle all the installed VIA driver components. You could select the VIA IDE Bus Master item in the list box of Remove option.
The silent mode are usually applied to system maintainer for servicing hundreds systems that wont have interactive user interface. They would execute the setup through command line in console or batch file execution without closing any popped dialog popped or pressing next buttons. In addition, the command line parameters of these two types of downloaded file format get few differences.
In this type package, you could see a setup.exe in those extracted files. User could append parameters behind setup.exe as command line in console.
The present command line parameters are: -s
and /z"reboot;remove;kompnt:xx,yy,zz"
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Parameter |
Description |
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-s |
It is a required command line parameter to enable
silent mode operation. If this parameter is missed, the setup can’t execute
under silent mode. |
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-zParam1;K;ParamN |
It passes predefined parameters to SETUP.EXE.
Each parameter, Param1;K;ParamN, should be separated with semicolons. The predefined sub-parameters are: reboot It causes Setup.exe automatically to reboot after the silent mode operation completed. remove It is a switch to cause Setup.exe to remove components. If this parameter is
absent, then SETUP.EXE will install components. kompnt:xx,yy,zz It is an optional parameter to assign specific
component in this package to be install/remove. The xx,yy,zz should be replaced with component
name in which is defined as same as the component folder name of this
package. |
Examples:
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Command line |
Execution
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setup.exe -s |
Silent install all included components but not
reboot the computer. |
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setup.exe -s /z"reboot" |
Silent install all component and reboot the
computer. |
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setup.exe -s /z"reboot;remove" |
Silent uninstall all include component and reboot
the computer. |
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setup.exe -s
/z"remove" |
Silent uninstall all components but not reboot
the computer. |
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setup.exe -s /z"kompnt:VIAMACH,VIASTORE" |
Silent install VIAMACH and VIASTORE components
only |
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setup.exe -s /z"remove;kompnt:VIAMACH,
VIASTORE " |
Silent uninstall VIAMACH and VIASTORE components
only |
This type is a single self-extracted-execution file. All necessary files are all integrated together so that user does not need to extract it to specific folder for operation. There is extra parameter to make the self-extracted shell to be in silent mode.
The present command line parameters are -s -a, -s and /z"reboot;remove;kompnt:xx,yy,zz"
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Parameter |
Description |
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-s -a |
It is a required command line parameter to make the
self-extracted shell program to be in silent mode. And it should be the first
parameter in command line. |
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-s |
It is a required command line parameter to enable
silent mode operation. If this parameter is missed, the setup |
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-zParam1;K;ParamN |
It passes predefined parameters to SETUP.EXE.
Each parameter, Param1;K;ParamN, should be separated with semicolons. The predefined sub-parameters are: reboot It causes Setup.exe automatically to reboot
after the silent mode operation completed. remove It is a switch to cause Setup.exe to remove components. If this parameter is
absent, then SETUP.EXE will install components. kompnt:xx,yy,zz It is an optional parameter to assign specific
component in this package to be install/remove. The xx,yy,zz should be replaced with component
name in which is defined as same as the component folder name of this
package. |
Examples:
We assume that you download a self-extracted-execution file named as VIASTORE.exe.
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Command line |
Execution
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VIASTORE.exe -s -a -s |
Silent install all included components but not
reboot the computer. |
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VIASTORE.exe -s -a -s /z"reboot" |
Silent install all components and reboot the
computer. |
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VIASTORE.exe -s -a -s /z"reboot;remove" |
Silent uninstall all included component and
reboot the computer. |
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VIASTORE.exe -s -a -s /z"remove" |
Silent uninstall all components but not reboot
the computer. |
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VIASTORE.exe -s -a -s
/z"kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent install VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components
only |
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VIASTORE.exe -s -a -s
/z"remove;kompnt:VIAMACH,VIAUDIO" |
Silent uninstall VIAMACH and VIAUDIO components
only |
The default-supported language in this package is in English.
If the executed Windows OS is in an un-supported language to this
package, the user interface will be represented in English.
This setup package support 33 languages as below
Chinese(Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Indonesian,
Japanese, Korean, Russian,
Thai, Turkish.
Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan,
Croatian, Czech, Danish,
Dutch, English, Finish,
French(Canada), French(France), German,
Greek, Hungarian, Italian,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese(Brazi),
Portuguese(Portugal), Romanian, Serbian,
Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish.
All the
language sequence is arranged as alphabetical.
(1)
Notice:
(a)
Some Serial-to-Parallel bridge adapters are not
fully compatible with our host controller. Please remove power of both bridge
and device and then power on both bridge and device again before re-plug in.
(b)
Same reason as (a). If Windows has serious delay
when it boots up, please try using another bridge
(c)
Same reason as (a). Some ATAPI device will take
longer detection time when plug-in.
(d)
To consider performance issue, the average time of
plug-in detection is 5 seconds. Microsoft default driver might not detect
correctly if plug-in/out devices within 5 seconds.
(e) Unsafe removal of ATAPI device will causes 10 seconds time out (Microsoft
driver behavior), system might stop responding for a
while.
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